The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-11

Preluding gentle spring
Whom baseball umpires nest again.
And hens begin to sing
Chicago News.
DR.. LEEDS, of Lincoln, ILL.,. offered SIS to the
Ladies Missionary Society if twenty or more
young ladies would sit together two hours with
out speaking Twenty-six won the money in
spite of efforts to make them talk.
SHIPS with electric lights may run in the Suez
Canal at such speed as will take them from end
to end in seventeen hours. ]. g. Benefits
yacht. the Namouna. lately beat the Suez record
with thirteen hours and fftytwo minutes.
SToNEwALL JAcKsoNs memory is to be kept
green by monument on the battlefield at
Charlottesville where he received the wound
that caused his death. The people of Freder
icksburg are taking the lead in the movement.
Puck: young man." said an apostle, sol
emily. ''do you realize when you retire at night,
that you may be called before the morning
dawns?" eyes, sir" responded the young man.
II realize it fully. I'm the father of a three
weeks old baby"
THE Studebaker brothers. of wagon making
fame, are interested in the mammoth hotel and
convention hall to be built in Chicago 1t will
be the largest establishment of the kind in the
world, and it is expected that the investment
will pay at least per cent
SEVERAL Detroit men now in Washington,
| an object of interest in their native city. He
| spends his time walking up and down the CORR
| doris Of his hotel pacing to and fro In the
| square in front of his inamorata's residence.
THE venerable Verdi is fonder of bucolics than
of operates. He is practical and skillful agri-
cuturst, and is looked to by all his neiehbors as
almost tutelary divinity. AS a veterinarian
| be is also in high repute. Scarcely COW or a
pig falls sick that he is not asked to prescribe
| for.
MR. EDWIN r. CLAPP. leading business man
| of Des Moines. on the 1st of the present month
| celebrated the fftleth anniversary of his settle
! ment in Iowa. He went thlther by wagon and
| on foot. There weretheE less than IL. 600 peo
| pie in all Iowa. or less than one-third the pres
| ent population of Des Moines
HERE is pen picture in miniature of Queen
Victoria in her jubilee year: 'At her latest
drawing room the Queen looked contented, and
beamed placidly at every one over the Kohinoor
which blazed at her throat Her complexion
| was radiant" She looked as though she NIGH
outive the Prince of Wales, who showed sickly
| countenance as he stood by.
| SECRETARY ENDICoTT is now having wires
laid in the War Department building which will
connect the entrance doors with the elevator
The instant the Secretary arrives at the depart
! ment the Waterman on duty will touch Thu
| anunciator The elevator man" thus signaet
will at once bring the elevator to the grount
floor ready for Mr.. Edicott to step right in, with
out pausing to ring the bell like lesser mortals.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND will be fifty years oil
on Friday. the 18th inst He has not yet de
cided to make any especial celebration on tina
date, but it is quite probable that he will enjo
it in a quiet, domestic way. He will be Only tn
fourth President celebrating mis- semi-centennia
in the White House. The other three wer
James K. Polk, Franklin Pierce and =. S. Grant
If Garfield had lived month longer. he woul
have been fifty.
| CONGRESSMAN w. r. Cox of North Ca-olina
has been boarding at the Riggs House, IN Wash
ington, for five or six years. Saturday he on
tered the dning-room. and upon walking to hi
table discovered negro guest of the hotel eli,
ting there eating. Walking back to the office
Mr. Cox paid his bill, and, securing his luggage
left the hotel. He went to Wormleys, plac
kept by colored people, but who, Mr.. Cox says
| s'kuOW their place.